Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 ↓

“The second step is easier than the first. Always.”

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Friday, Apr 12th, 2013 ↓

My father’s rule was to imagine that you have the solution already. It is a great way to solve problems.

I’d ask him a question: How many horses does it take to do something? And he’d answer right away, “Five horses; can you tell me if I am right or wrong?” By the time I’d figured out that it couldn’t be five, he’d say, “Well if it’s not five, then it must be X. Can you solve for that?” And I could, because the problem was already laid out from the test of whether five horses was correct.

Doing it backward removed the anxiety from the answer. The anxiety, of course, is the fear that the problem can’t be solved—at least not by me.

Charles Simonyi

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Wednesday, Mar 27th, 2013 ↓

"Management exists to minimize the problems created by its own hiring mistakes." →

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Monday, Mar 18th, 2013 ↓

“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of an empty desk?”

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Sunday, Mar 17th, 2013 ↓

How close are we to the obsolescence point for combustion engines?


“In five or six years, electric vehicles are going to offer 500 miles of range… effectively zero lifetime fuel cost, and zero emissions.”

- Steven Johnson

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Sunday, Feb 17th, 2013 ↓
I don’t know why critics called the original Mac (1984) a toy.
[model and photo by Chris McVeigh]

I don’t know why critics called the original Mac (1984) a toy.

[model and photo by Chris McVeigh]

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Saturday, Feb 9th, 2013 ↓
It takes two screwdrivers, a plastic spudger, good vision, and a certain amount of patience to dismantle a 5 year old MacBook Pro.

It takes two screwdrivers, a plastic spudger, good vision, and a certain amount of patience to dismantle a 5 year old MacBook Pro.

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Monday, Feb 4th, 2013 ↓

The resolution
of mysterious problems
are sometimes proven
but coincidental to
seeking their solution.

a troubleshooting tanka

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Tuesday, Jan 22nd, 2013 ↓

a bitter pot marks
the night shift’s transition
between night and morn.

a graveyard shift haiku

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Saturday, Jan 12th, 2013 ↓

“The best information is the kind that changes us most.”

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Tuesday, Jan 1st, 2013 ↓

Determination is the foundation of success.

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Friday, Dec 28th, 2012 ↓

help the spiders find you

If you’re interested in getting noticed on the internet, update — and try to keep up to date — each of your online profiles, blogs, social media accounts and others sites, with links to all your other online presences. Links are the threads that bind the internet together — and lead the spiders* to you. Without links, there is no web. And without links to you, you might as well be invisible, online.

Oh, it also makes it easier for friends, colleagues and clients to find you. And isn’t that the idea?

__________

* No, really, in this metaphor, spiders are your friends.

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Saturday, Dec 22nd, 2012 ↓

barely invest →

“Participants receive almost no money, and are expected to do everything themselves, making them vastly better prepared to succeed in business.”

     - Maciej Cegłowski

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Tuesday, Nov 6th, 2012 ↓

“If enough smart people start voting again, things will improve, because billions of dollars in political marketing will suddenly be trying to please you.”

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Monday, Oct 29th, 2012 ↓

“They are just making too much money doing the old stuff to truly embrace anything new.”

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